Motor Development Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Dev Psychobiol. 2021 Sep;63(6):e22123. doi: 10.1002/dev.22123. Epub 2021 May 4.
The purpose of this study was to quantify the relationship between early motor skills, such as sitting, and the development of problem-solving skills in children with motor delays.
Motor (Gross Motor Function Measure) and problem-solving (Assessment of Problem-Solving in Play) skills of 134 children 7-16 months adjusted age at baseline with motor delay were assessed up to 5 times over 12 months. Participants were divided into two groups: mild and significant motor delay.
Motor and problem-solving scores had large (r's = 0.53-0.67) and statistically significant (p's > .01) correlations at all visits. Baseline motor skills predicted baseline and change in problem solving over time. The associations between motor and problem-solving skills were moderated by level of motor delay, with children with significant motor delay generally having stronger associations compared to those with mild motor delay.
These findings suggest that overall baseline motor skills are predictive of current and future development of problem-solving skills and that children with significant motor delay have a stronger and more stable association between motor and problem-solving skills over time. This highlights that children with motor delays are at risk for secondary delays in problem solving, and this risk increases as degree of motor delay increases.
本研究的目的是量化儿童早期运动技能（如坐立）与解决问题技能发展之间的关系，这些儿童存在运动发育迟缓。
对 134 名运动发育迟缓的 7-16 个月龄儿童在基线时进行运动（粗大运动功能测量）和解决问题（游戏中解决问题的评估）技能评估，在 12 个月内最多进行 5 次评估。参与者被分为两组：轻度运动延迟和显著运动延迟。
在所有访视中，运动和解决问题评分均具有较大（r=0.53-0.67）和统计学显著（p>.01）相关性。基线运动技能预测了随时间变化的基线和解决问题的变化。运动和解决问题技能之间的关联受到运动延迟程度的调节，与轻度运动延迟的儿童相比，显著运动延迟的儿童通常具有更强的关联。
这些发现表明，总体基线运动技能可预测当前和未来解决问题技能的发展，并且运动延迟严重的儿童在运动和解决问题技能之间的关联具有更强和更稳定的关系。这表明运动发育迟缓的儿童存在解决问题的继发性发育迟缓风险，随着运动延迟程度的增加，这种风险会增加。
